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Bear Lake reflection

Sovata, Romania

 

The first data about Sovata are from 1578. By 1583 it was already a village. Due to its salty lakes and warm water it became an increasingly popular health resort during the end of the 19th and the 20th century. It gained the status of town in 1952. The geological events in 1875 gave birth to the Bear Lake, which is unique in Europe, its water being helio-thermal and salty, with purported therapeutic effects for chronic gynecological symptoms, severe rheumatic pains, peripheral nervous system and post-accidental motor diseases.

 

There are four more salty lakes: Nut Lake, Black Lake, Red Lake and Green Lake around Sovata. In the interwar period, Sovata became one of the most fashionable spas in the country, visited several times even by the Romanian Royal Family. (Wikipedia)

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